Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-18

City, Mich, has just located a new manu-
factory in Chattanooga, Tenn. When the
work on the buildings is completed the
plant will be removed 20 Chattanooga. A
contract was also let by the Arson e..
Wood mower and reaper works Of Younga-
town, O., for the erection of six buildings,
to cost $5O, 1000. The buildings are to be
completed within sixty days, when the
plant will be moved TO Chattanooga.
1t is understood that should the large
steel gun tor which the Pitts5urg Steel
Casting Company has the contract possess
the strength required by the Government
other contracts of the same kind will fol-
low. Speaking of the making of this gun,
a New York paper remarks: There Is an
experiment now making in Pittsburg in
the way of gun casting that may lead TO
important changes in the production OF
ordinance. If this is done successfully
and at the cost expected, it may bs the
first important step toward making Pitts
burg the great gun factory Of the world"
The Bulletin of the American Iron and
Steel Association of December IA says!
Prices of steel rails have unmistakaly
hardened, as our market reports this week
represent. The price at Pennsylvania
mills to-day is firm at $33. The Bethle-
hem Iron Co. sold 10, 900 tons last week
in one lot at this price, and it also sold
5000 tons in another lot at q still higher
price. One eastern mill refuses to con-
slider any offer at less than $3l. On the
1st of December the orders which had
heen taken by all the mills for 1858 de-
livery aggregated 80, 900 tons.
A company with 81, 600, 900 capital has
been organized to build mills to mill lime
with the Stag that comes from Besssmer
mill, which will make an excellent basic
phosphate fertilizer.
Six thousand kangaroo skins are re-
ceivcd at Newark, n. j., every week.
They are brought from Australia, 300
miles from the coast. There are twenty
varieties If this animal, and the skin Is
worth 20 cents q pound. Partisan and
London shoe manufacturer, as we'll as
buyers il Greece, Spain, and even Aus
tralia itself, are said TO purchase tanned
skins from Newark tanneries.
Railroad companies west OF the Missis
sippi will place a large number OF con-
tracts this month and next. The Denver
and Rio Grapde has Just ordered 30 loco
motives so freight cars aud a number OF
passenger cars. Nearly every railroad
west Of the Mississippi is in the market for
some kind OF material or supplies.
The government has Just tested a twelve
inch breech-loading mortar that will
throw q shell weighing 267 pounds a dis
lance Of five miles by q charge sixty-tive
pounds OF powder. II has been estimated
that it will cost $l2, 900, 900 to supply NOR
tar defenses to the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts.
Tie workers in woodworking maChin-
cry in western cities are agitatlnC CO.
operative schemes, but The drawback Is,
in the fist place, tic large amount of
necessary capital, and second, the diff.
Guilty of forming a working organization.
Nntm~i outstanding the fact that the Legis.
Iatlre Of New York male Saturday after
uoon 2 legal half holiday, there is only one
town in the State, and that Is Rochester,
where 1t IS recognized.
The manufacturers Of brass goods hag
become a great ami tlOuTiShing industry.
There is q wide field for designing talent
and . coed margin on all products made.
Three new works have recently started up
ir New Eoglana.
Capitalists are preparing to Organize two
or tGrse large companies to build pipe lines
next year from tho natural Eas fields to
distant points. One company has put in
S. OO, OOU 20 supply five manufacturing
towns in Ohio.
For every t~wsntg-three yards of cotton
c!0.a that Great Britain exported in 1SGn
l"rtY-cight yards were exported this year.
Tna present price OF cotton goods IS q
per cent less than it Was thirty-twO years
ago.
Millions OF tons of Swcdish magnetic ore
beyond the Arctic Circle are being mined.
it gives seventy per cent of metal. The
owacTs ct these deposits are inundated
with orders.
Electric light machinery il being shipped
from New York to all parts Of Europe and
Great britain. The American machinery
seems 10 * desirable where great power Is
wanted.
Northwestern boot and shoe iObbers and
rctaEIvrs have heen talsgraphiDg 10 Massa-
chUSr;;s aii week for stock. Demand is
increasing steadily at all eastern points.
English ironmakers are alarmed at the
report that u new York syndicate il about
closing for the control Of all the iron depcs-
It's OF the Dominion of Canada.
A large deposit Of asbestos, 5000 yards
square, % ieet deep, has Just been un-
covered in Quebec. The veins range from
on"-half 10 one and "a hall inches.
The usual Latch Of newly projected mills
in the south is unusually large. The re-
turns iya,u Investments are strengthening
confidence.
This great trouble to obtain skilled labor
at 4 large cotton factory in Savannah has
made il Il losing venture and the owner
waits to sell.
It fakes about 1900. G3O tons Of salt ia
supply the American market. About one,
third oithis quantity is imported.
1t Athens, Tenn, . $l50,OO0 cotton
mill il 10 he huilt, also a $50, 900 hotel and
a iD5-t0n blast furnace.
In Chattanooga, Tenn, permits have
bten taken cat this year for 900 new bald
ing1.
Southerl iron manufacturers are greatly
worried over the scarcity ofcoke.
\ Cuthhert, Ga, cotton mili has closed
dowa end heen offered for sale.